State v. Higham

OPINION

SUTTELL, Justice.

The defendant, David Higham, appeals from a judgment of conviction entered in the Superior Court on January 10, 2003, after guilty verdicts by a jury on two counts of first-degree child molestation sexual assault in violation of G.L.1956 § 11-37-8.1 and § 11-37-8.2. The two charges involved sexual assaults committed by the defendant upon his seven-year-old stepgranddaughter. After denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial, the trial justice sentenced the defendant to concurrent terms of forty years on each count, with twenty years to serve at the Adult…